When Suzanne Wrack fell in love with football as a young girl the sport was still a boys’ club. Now, with the Women’s Euros about to kick off in England, things have never looked so good
. It is this side of the game that I love exploring: how football can be used as a force for good. Imagine what it could do for women – the 50% of the global population it has excluded for so long.
Sign up to our Inside Saturday newsletter for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the magazine’s biggest features, as well as a curated list of our weekly highlights There were brief moments when I dipped back in. A handful of Arsenal Ladies players ran sessions after school for a couple of terms. I held the keepie uppie record and revelled in those brief evenings dancing across the sports hall with a ball at my feet, but the damage had been done. Friends were bemused that I would stick behind after school, that I had to walk home alone in the fading light. I felt unfit, and the sessions were short-lived. I stopped.
The Glasgow Herald reported on an 1881 women’s match: ‘The game, judged from a player’s point of view, was a failure’ Through more than a century of setbacks, bans and prejudices since, the resilient women’s game has climbed off its knees time and time again. It has been fought for by women who could have easily given up or swapped into a sport more palatable to wider society. It has been driven both by those who desire political change but also by those who just enjoy the freedom of playing.
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